The Concept
The intrinsic value of essential goods and services can only be calculated in terms of a "parity price". This true and honest parity value has it roots in the laws of thermodynamics and energy transference. At this parity price level, all goods and services can be produced and consumed without adding non repayable capital debt to the economy during each annual economic cycle..
Capitalists economies have strayed far from this truth because so many modern services provided by technical advanced have clouded the true value of the intelligent labor and raw materials that comprise the true cost and value of everything.
In today's modern world, it is easy to forget that the continuous production and flow of raw materials through the economy (driven by an intelligent and skilled labor force) forms the physical building blocks of an organized society. Accurate pricing of these materials and the labor necessary to transform them into the products we use every day are necessary prerequisites to the creation of full employment and consistent prosperity without the need for perpetual debt expansion.
Underpayment for raw materials production and labor creates a corresponding loss in National Income which forces more borrowing and causes entire populations to suffer in the midst of plenty. This was the lesson of the Great Depression, where America was producing as much as ever, but the lack of earned income due to the depressed value of raw materials and basic labor eventually brought poverty to millions in the land of plenty.
Policies which recognized the need for parity prices for raw material production were implemented with success in World War II. Parity production policies worked to win the war without a depression later.
Unfortunately, this common sense truth has been sacrificed for financial schemes that favor maximum economic gain without adherence to sound economic principles. This is where ProducerCoins and EmploymentCoins can make a positive difference.
ProducerCoins and EmploymentCoins have the potential to fill the gap between the current poverty level minimum wage and a real living wage for labor and small farmers, resulting in local economies that accurately reward work.
The successful launch and adoption of ProducerCoins and EmploymentCoins must adhere to the natural economic laws encompassed within the study of RME. These laws are based upon the flow and value of energy (both physical and mechanical) and define the parity price, or the accurate price (based upon the state of the art) of everything that aggregates into annual National Income.
National Income (NI) is defined as the income resulting from all annual production. Raw materials are defined as the harvested, mined, or extracted production of :
(1) Agriculture
(2) Forestry
(3) Fishing
(4) Mining... quarry and oil products
(5) recycling
Historically, farm products, which represent a majority of all annual raw material production, are consistently under priced by the market, especially storable commodities like corn, wheat, Milo, oats, etc., where it is necessary for a society to produce a year's supply in advance of a one-day demand. Due to this necessity, the market tends to view all inventories of storable commodities as surplus which drives the price down to the cost of production each time we have a bountiful harvest.
After several years of drought, yields returned to normal in 2013, and within the last year, farm gate prices have dropped by ½ and are now below the cost of production.
To fully understand the importance of paying a parity price for raw materials and labor, simply look around the room. You will see all sorts of raw materials that have been transformed by intelligent labor into a usable place to work or live that is filled with usable things.
All the raw materials you see are credits of nature and they have a parity value that must exceed the cost of their extraction and manipulation into usable goods, otherwise the economy becomes all costs and no profit.
The parity cost of transforming raw materials to something usable is the true value of labor. We are all debiting nature in our own way. The net value derived from this simple equation is the intrinsic value of everything that surrounds us. When the net balance sheet of the country is tallied, the value of raw materials is the national wealth.
It’is so simple. The value of raw materials and labor form the basis of any economy. The services we enjoy are afforded to us by a prosperous and profitable production economy because services can’t live off other services. When it happens for too long, the currency becomes worthless.
This type of preventable economic tragedy happens over and over again around the world because people and governments refuse to acknowledge the necessity to place the correct value on labor and raw materials, even when the need to do so is crystal clear.
ProducerCoin seeks to reduce the effect of this fundamental flaw, which again, is a society's blind refusal to pay itself properly at this basic level.
In the next paragraph, you will read "Rule One" of parity. It's the most important Parity equation of all. It literally anchors a capitalist system. When this rule is ignored for too long, the private enterprise economy falls into a death spiral of perpetual borrowing and debt expansion, punctuated by cycles of boom and bust, and the ultimate harm of the consolidation of wealth at the top of the economy.
Rule (1) An hour of labor at minimum wage must have the same value as the parity price of a bushel of wheat at the first point of sale.
In the year 2014, these two numbers must be $18.00 if the economy is to function without subsidizing the income of those who earn less than this living wage and subsidizing more than a million farmers.
Instead of properly monetizing the value of raw materials and labor, we have created a paradise for mega-banks that bring all currency into circulation as interest bearing debt that's recapitalized year after year, because repayment becomes impossible without reducing the amount of money in circulation.
The introduction of ProducerCoins and EmploymentCoins begins to break the cycle of perpetual borrowing. These coins provide potential escrowed value when they are issued into circulation instead of creating interest bearing debt like currency lent into circulation.
To fully understand the concept behind these coins, let's begin with the price of wheat, the so-called staple of life.
The current wheat price is $6.19 per bushel.
The national average cost of production is over $8.00 per bushel
The value of wheat as calculated by the USDA is
December Market price All wheat............ bushel: $6.36
USDA Parity Price All Wheat.....................bushel: $18.00
Percentage of Parity All Wheat....................................37%
As you see, the wheat price has dropped further since December of 2013.
In short, this is why so many farmers go broke and rural communities stagnate. It causes millions of people to end up in cities without jobs, who should have remained on farms and in small communities producing something.
You can run the same equation for all farm commodities. Wheat is only one example.
You can also run the same equation for everyone paid less than $18.00 per hour for their labor. It’s all tied to energy.
The ProducerCoin bridges the gap between the market price and the USDA Parity Price, all of which is easy to calculate.
Every USDA Farm Services Office in every county has an established historical yield average for each commodity grown in that county. Each farmer has a known amount of acres allocated to each crop.
To begin, coins should become available to each producer at par with USD (100 ProducerCoin bits make one ProducerCoin) and the amount of ProducerCoin in circulation should be adjusted annually to reflect yield and price.
ProducerCoins should only be issued to verified NON GMO PRODUCERS. This consumer incentive is essential to coin adoption. Over time, a market will emerge for ProducerCoins (based upon USD or other currencies) from exchanges offering buybacks or by derivatives or hedging.
All farm records are public. Land can’t be invented, so the volume and speed of ProducerCoin issuance can be governed to fill the price gap between the lower market price of the commodity and the higher parity price.
Over the long term, these ProducerCoins can potentially replace USD as the currency of choice by both producers and consumers who use them to buy and sell a broad range of goods and services.
Launching ProducerCoins To Create Worldwide Diversified Seed Bank
The adulteration of the World's seed supply by companies that profit from various GMOs such as Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, Syngenta, and DuPont/Poineer is alarming. Seeds are now being patented by these companies and the right to plant and produce GMO crops is literally licensed to farmers on an annual basis. As a result, the price of plant seed has "gone through the roof" in recent years.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service, the average per-acre cost of soybean and corn seed increased 325 percent and 259 percent, respectively, between 1995 and 2011. This is roughly the time period when acreage of GE corn and soy grew from less than 20 percent to more than 80-90 percent.
Farmers who plant GMOs must sign a contract with these companies and agree to refrain from using any of their production for their next year's planting seed. The United States Supreme Court has upheld these contracts.
GMOs now dominate corn and soybean production in America. As this trend continues, more heirloom seeds are getting contaminated by GMOs and many hybrids are disappearing completely.
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology found the number of non-GE corn seed varieties in the U.S. decreased 67 percent from 3,226 in 2005 to 1,062 in 2010, while the number of GE corn seed varieties increased only 6.7 percent.
Seed diversity is dwindling at a frightening pace while only four companies have consolidated control over a majority of all plant seeds. According to AgWeb, the "big four" biotech seed companies — Monsanto, DuPont/Pioneer, Syngenta, and Dow AgroSciences — own 80 percent of the U.S. corn seed market and 70 percent of the soybean business. They now control more than half the world's seed supply and those numbers are rising. See GM Watch for the full story.
Millions of consumers are outraged by this development but until now, most had no meaningful way to proactively react. The ProducerCoin can become an integral way to individually and collectively participate in protecting the World's seed supply while monetizing ProducerCoins that will be used to purchase non GMO and Certified Organic production from the farmers.
ProducerCoins can be purchased into circulation by motivated consumers to create a worldwide, diversified safe haven for every type non GMO seed on the planet.
These motivated consumers can simply visit a website that lists all participating farmers and the heirloom or hybrid seeds they offer for sale. These consumers can purchase these seeds in various amounts and varieties using ProducerCoins and have them shipped to their homes or stored by the farmer in segregated containers.
Issuing EmploymentCoins
The initial issuance of EmploymentCoins must begin at the same time that ProducerCoins are issued in each local trade area. To facilitate this parallel issuance, participating producers who receive ProducerCoins will purchase EmploymentCoins in AMOUNTS AND VOLUMES TO FULFILL THEIR LABOR REQUIREMENTS.
Producers will be individually responsible for purchasing EmploymentCoins into circulation at a Parity minimum wage as valued against USD. This distribution must occur within the same trade area and economic cycle as the ProducerCoin issuance.
EmploymentCoins should be simultaneously mined into circulation in each county by each underemployed worker not otherwise receiving EmploymentCoins to reflect the difference between their personal hourly wage and the parity minimum wage of $18.00.
When the hourly wage plus the total value of the EmploymentCoins mined by a worker reaches 100% of the Parity minimum wage for all hours worked in the previous year, no additional EmploymentCoins can be mined by such worker. Initial mining for EmploymentCoins should begin within the lowest paid service workers such as the food service industry. Mining should be promoted by cooperating service unions and non profit organizations.
Customers of sub-minimum wage establishments should be encouraged to buy EmploymentCoin from these employees. Customers should receive an appropriate lapel pin upon said purchase signifying their support of a real living wage.
Conclusion
Under current monetary policy, the capitalization of interest as non-repayable debt is inevitable during each economic cycle due to the flawed fractional reserve banking system that governs the economy.
America's Central Bank controlled monetary policies will continue to erode the purchasing power of the dollar and harm the working class until it can be changed.
The first step toward reducing the power of the Central Bank is to give it competition with crypto-currencies based on the Bitcoin model. This is the only way to inject enough currency into the economy to produce and exhange goods and services without continuous borrowing from the banks.
Indexing the injection volume of ProducerCoin and EmploymentCoins to the parity price of a bushel of wheat and an hour of labor will interrupt the cycle of Central Bank driven monetary degradation while lifting the day-to-day burden from those who can least afford it.
As more ProducerCoins and EmploymentCoins are adopted by merchants in each community, economic growth will hasten as the velocity and volume of commerce improves, eventually reaching the goal of monetizing raw materials and labor at a 100% parity price.
Final note... These same systems can be established for all raw materials using the RME formula. It's simple enough to be calculated with a pencil.
ProducerCoins
Concept by Fred Lundgren
Katy, Texas
(281) 599-9800
The Problem
The adulteration of our food supply and the exploitation of labor, combined with constant shortages of food and natural resources in many underdeveloped countries has worsened in the 21st century. Poor nutrition and poor people are commonplace across the globe.
We have witnessed obscene concentrations of wealth along with obscene concentrations of poverty We are surrounded by millions of people in western democracies who can't afford to purchase the goods and services they produce.
At the core of this problem are fatally flawed, debt based monetary systems that restrict the issuance of all new currency by forcing it to be borrowed into circulation as interest bearing debt. These systems are designed to endlessly concentrate wealth at the top of the economy while restricting the flow, velocity and saving of wealth by workers, small businesses and farmers.
These monetary systems are controlled by generations of economic parasites who drain the value of our planet's labor and natural resources. These systems were never designed to pay an honest day's wage for an honest day's work. They leave millions with no hope of a good life and millions more with a mirage of opportunity that never materializes.
Introducing ProducerCoins and EmploymentCoins
This website unveils the "ProducerCoin" and the related "EmploymentCoin" concept whose essence and enumerated roll-out is described below. These coins are strictly based upon the macro economic discipline known as "Raw Materials Economics" (RME), commonly called "Parity Economics", which is a basic formula of fairness and equity of exchange that heretofore has been hidden from the masses.
ProducerCoins and EmploymentCoins can be used as an alternative currency to bridge the gap between disastrously low hourly wages and a living wage for labor while adding additional value to non GMO and organic farm products that too often sell for less than the cost to produce them.
This currency can be an important first step toward lifting millions of people out of poverty in rural and urban areas while rewarding small and mid-sized family farms that practice sustainable, organic food production systems. The need to launch "ProducerCoins" and "EmploymentCoins" stems from the proven failure of current economic systems to place an accurate value on essential raw materials and labor.
Every product and service we use in our daily lives has a fair and honest value. This value can be accurately measured in terms of the human and mechanical energy required to produce all "things". This fair and honest value becomes the "Parity Price".
Everything we utilize in our daily lives is comprised of raw materials and intelligent labor. Thus, all products, goods and services carry an intrinsic parity value which is consistent with the human and mechanical energy necessary to produce them. These coins can potentially add value to these two primary purchases, food and labor.
ProducerCoin and EmploymentCoin
A Call To Action
Vote For A Better World By Utilizing Digital Currencies
Vote For A Better World By Utilizing Digital Currencies
ProducerCoin and EmploymentCoin
The Full Story
The Full Story
